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Trump administration looks to reinterpret Cold War-era arms treaty to sell more US drones: report

The Trump administration plans to reinterpret a 33-year-old arms treaty to allow U.S. defense companies to sell more drones, Reuters reported.

The change to the Reagan-era Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) — a treaty between 34 countries signed in 1987 to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons — could open up sales of larger, armed U.S. drones to governments including Jordan and the United Arab Emirates that have been barred from buying such weapons, a U.S. official, a former U.S. official and a defense company executive told Reuters.

Read more at The Hill

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